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What a strange day. I've just been reading the final tweets of a very young journalist named Jessica Ghawi also known as Jessica Redfield.
The tweets have to do with her excitement about attending the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a multiplex theater about 10 miles east of Denver. She's teasing her friends who didn't make the trip. Her last Tweet complains that the movie still hasn't started.
Even more eerily, Jessica wrote on her blog earlier this month about a close brush with a similar fate: "I can't get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won't go away. I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm's way. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting." One of the voices from Aurora, Colorado.
At the top of today's show - your reactions to the shooting massacre that left at least 12 people dead.
Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.
Things we endorsed on the show today:
James: The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam explores how our brains really do function on autopilot.
Patty: Thalia, a pan-cuisine restaurant on the edge of the NYC Theater district where you can get $1 oysters. (Eighth Ave. near 50th St.)
Colin: Eating at the bar, occasionally, as a way to experience a fancy restaurant in a less pressured manner.
Bruce: "Making Rumors" by Ken Caillat and "My Cross to Bear" by Gregg Allman -- two books that take you behind the scenes of rock music of a certain age.
Colin: "Safety Not Guaranteed" -- the next beloved quirky indy movie, this one with a time travel theme. And No Strings -- a fundraiser for Guitar Under the Stars.
